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Nilanjana Bhattacharjya

Assistant Professor

Nilanjana Bhattacharjya’s research focuses on popular music and its relationship to globalization and cultural identity. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines how contemporary South Asian diasporic musicians in Britain relate to mainstream British popular culture and the world music industry. More generally, she is interested in how music changes its forms and cultural affiliations as it circulates through both formal and informal networks, and adopts different technologies. She has written (with Monika Mehta) a chapter on Hindi film music in the edited collection, Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Songs and Dance, as well as articles in the journals Asian Music and South Asian History and Culture.

Education

    B.A., Wellesley College, 1996

    M.A., Cornell University, 1999

    Ph.D., Cornell University, 2006

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